The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-02-03
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LAcONcS PICKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

dies the world will be better for his having
lived in it.
The moon will be III eclipse on the 9Th
inst the only one visible in this latitude
during the year 1887.
Sales of tobacco have been heavy this
week. Prices are sitter and the special
columns of the farmers ditto.
The Whitehall Times says hell is paved
with the skulls of men who never clean
the snow from their sidewalks.
The Whitehall Times says never ask God
to forgive your debts unless you have
paid your newspaper subscriptions.
Procure your seat in time and attend the
concert at Burwell Hall tomorrow even
ing. Admission 20, % and 35 cents.
The man who helps to build up town is
not the one who spends most Of his time
standing around in the way looking at other
people work.
Indications point to a lively trade with
our merchants this spring. Business al
ready improving and we believe better
times are ahead
While some business men complain of
dull times, others are redOnbling their
energies and going in for bigger trade
than ever this spring.
Five boxes of choice Florida oranges
the last of the SEASONAL Parker u Gloss
this week Call early and supply yourself
before they are all gone.
Persons who handle and expect to sell
fertilizers this season should remember
that it is getting time to advertise. Plant
ing time will soon be here.
A correspondent writes column article
in the Durham Recorder discussing the
question ''can mans neck be broken by
hanging" We suggest that the writer try
it and see.
The first month of 1887 is gone. Wonder
how many of the good resolutions formed
at the beginning of the New Year, which
were to be lived up to 800 days, have been
kept till now?
Every intelligent, thoughtful citizen of
Vance county ought to subscribe for the
GOLD LEAF 1t is your duty to maintain a
journal that is using every available means
10 Dullu up your ScctIoh.
We extend a cordial invitation to our
friends living in the country to call at our
office and see us when they come to town.
Come and tell lis the news in your neigh
borhood We have hearty welcome for
all.
Lots of people think they are Bartholdi's
statue, and they take the liberty OF en-
li,rI,t ,ir,krk LAW
And they generally begin by trying to
teach newspaper men how to conduct their
papers.
The deepest gold mine in the world is in
California, says floating item, but that S
a mistake. The deepest gold mine i'll the
world is true Wife'S loving heart. No
Ii an ever got to the bottom of it yet
SOmerville journal.
To succeed in life, be industrious, honest,
careful, saving sober, and persevering.
Young man, remember that. And if you
are a business man-dependent upon the
public patronage for support, we may add
advertising to the list.
Send us the news of your neighbOrhOOd.
Inform us by postal of any interesting
event occurring in your section-anything
that would be of local or general interest.
Give the facts and we will put them in
shape. Will you Oblige US by doing this?
Let every farmer resolve to plant less
tobacco, or cotton, as the case may be, and
more corn, and use a smaller quantity
of commercial fertilizers this year. Make
compost and thereby enrich your land
by building tup with permanent manure.
When business is dull it should be taken
to the grindstOne and have new edge put
on it.-RoS6's 1O0ttpick.
Better still'-use printers ink literally,
or in plain English advertise and push
your business That is the best way to
whet up trade.
An exchange gives this pointer about
how to advertise. 1t says: Put your ad-
vertisement on board fence alongside of
railroad. The man looking up from his
paper in the express train will notice it as
a white streak OH a black background, and
will get out at the next station and walk
back mile to find out what it is.
Here is strong proof of the power of
printers ink. An exchange says: Some
days age an advertisement for a lost child
was published i'll Florida paper and the
next morning an alligator dragged himself
up to the house of the bereaved parents
and disgorged the remains of tile child.
Who says advertising doesn't pay?
When you come to plant your tobacco,
ask yourself the question if you have profit
ed by the One-crOp syStem?-cultivating
tobacco to the exclusion of corn, wheat,
oats grasses, potatoes, etc. If not, then
plant less of the one and more of these
other crops. Let your first aim be to make
your own supplies, and as much tobacco as
you can cultivate we'll
We are growing somewhat anxious on
account of our esteemed mcrning con-
temporary at the capital In its Sunday
edition it worked off the following para
graphs on an unSuspecting public:
A northern young woman has died i'm the
effort to master the intricacies of the law.
We suppose they will put a Blackstone
over her grave, of course.
A Mr.. Vichy hung himself to an Iowa
lamp-pOst, while drunk, and was cut down,
dead. The danger of putting whiskey into
vichy is therefore apparent without further
words
1t is better to be defeated than not to
have been nominated at ALL Whitehall
IaneS. We congratulate You upon the fact
that you are able to derive consolation
from such thought. Brother Wilkins.
henderson On. CO GOLD LEAF: TwaSn't
wilkins, at all. lie aspires to no nOmi-
nation III this world, and hopes not to be
ue1eated Tor the Office he expects in the